ZoomText – Suppress auto-update prompt

ZoomText – Suppress auto-update prompt

Problem

If ZoomText is installed on workstations in an organisation running under limited user accounts administrators wish to prevent the auto-update prompt from being seen by users.


Applies to

  1. ZoomText/Fusion

 

Resolution

In organisations where users run under limited user accounts you may wish to suppress the aut-update prompt.  One may modify a configuration file to do this, see steps below:

  1. Open/modify the following file: on the target system

    %ProgramData%\Freedom Scientific\ZoomText\[Version]\TestSupp.ini

    [version] in the path is a number equal to the currently installed version of the software eg. 2024
  1. In the TESTSUP.INI file you will need to amend the value of the relevant auto update flag under the INI section [test support].  Change the value after the equals sign from 1 to 0 then save the file to affect the change as per examples below.

 

ZoomText


[Test Support]
AutoCheckZoomTextUpdates=0


Fusion

[Test Support]
AutoCheckFusionUpdates=0